Section I - Convulsant poisons: cerebral convulsants; medullary excitants; cord convulsants; peripherally acting convulsants. Section II - Central nervous system depressants: the alcohols; toxicology of general anesthesia; miscellaneous depressant vapors; basal anesthetics and somnifacients; the toxicology of analgetics. Section III - Peripherally acting nerve poisons. Poisons acting on nerve trunks, ganglia and nerves endings: somatic nerves; poisoning of nerve ends and myoneural junctions of somatic nerves; poisons of nerves and muscles of the viscera. Section IV - Muscle poisons: smooth muscle excitants and depressants; cardiac poisons; Section V - Protoplasmic poisons: local irritants and corrosives; poisons causing degenerative lesions of the nervous system; liver poisons; kidney poisons; poisoning with symptoms referable to the digestive tract; toxicology of the lungs; miscellaneous protoplasmic poisons; poisons of animal origin. Section VI - Poisons of the blood and hematopoietic organs: bone-marrow, erythrocyte and leucocytic poisons; poisons affecting blood plasma. Section VII – Principles of treatment: measures to decrease absorption; elimination of absorbed poison; physiological antagonism of poisons; general care. Section VIII – An outline of symptom diagnosis. Section IX – Chemical diagnosis of poisoning: preservation of tissues; special equipment essential for the toxicologist; separation of poisons; separation of poisons; analysis of acid-ether extract; analysis of alkaline chloroform extract; metallic poisons; miscellaneous poisons. Appendix: special reagents.